Welcome to ArtSourceLab

a learning system enhanced with contributions by researchers, leaders, practitioners and target groups.

tailor of solutions for organizations and communities in private and public sectors.

started in 2001 und still led by Danish artist Per Traasdahl.

With the decision 2008 to found Caiju, an nonprofit organization working for equal chances and working life integration of the youth, ArtSourceLab was paused as an operating brand, hence being the guard of an artistic dimension and virtual think-tank behind the operations of Caiju.

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ArtSourceLab is working on the "engineering of social systems". We share our concern with WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Our output is always case-specific. Hence this website is the satelite of our doings pointing to specific concepts and results.

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What it takes to make social systems sustainable:

a more precise and outspoken strategic planning of participatory processes.(our key-concept: "Social Meta-Structures", see below)

the analysis, monitoring and balancing of values concerning all stakeholders in case specific social systems, including non-monitary values such as psychosocial knowledge and behavior. (our key-concept for the monitoring of this: "The CaseMonitor Project", see below)

last but not least: the employment of micro-economic market-place dynamics as motor of social dynamics; without which a "give and take" mentality will not be sustainable.(see the "TeenKom" system and "Virtual Cluster")

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Some Documents are in English, some in German. Feel free to do download material and to contact us if you have questions or comments:

What is TeenKom?

TeenKom is both: An art project and a social model-project, a role game and reality. Adolescents can establish their own community with the TeenKom system, monitor their doings on an internet-based administration platform, acquire and execute short term jobs (in TeenKom named “Flash Jobs”). Hence, in an atmosphere of fun and self-determination, they gain trust and motivation concerning their own future.

The Origin, Objectives And Action Frames Of Art In The Psychosocial Place

including the model: "The Dynamic Of The Mind Inside And Outside The Now"

The video represents a field of concern, that has been discussed in trainings and lectures led by Per Traasdahl since 2003. Including 48 illustrations and the model "The Dynamic Of The Mind Inside And Outside The Now", the lecture has served as core foundation for the development of TeenKom and other concepts by ArtSourceLab (2001-2008) and the Caiju organization (since 2009).

The lecture was developed for the workshop "Art-methodologies bridging intra-psychic and social safe-place conceptions" at the VIII European Conference on Traumatic Stress, May 22 - 25, 2003 in Berlin. ArtSourceLab speakers were political scientist Volker Kaul and the founder, danish artist Per Traasdahl. Invited discussant was the trauma expert David Becker. 2016 the lecture was transformed into video and republished.